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Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

pulses again The girl had washed
and made herself as tidy as possible
with her scant opportunities, and
looked really beautiful in the glow OF
the evening fire.
That night she sat beside me, dress
ed i'll the warm and comfortable gar
ments, and quite forgot to look over
my accounts. could do nothing but
look at her. ...
One night ! came home, and was
surprised at the appearance of my
room. A handsome rug lay before
the fire, and four faded crimson chairs
and rocker brought back the old
time sense of comfort. A little table
decked with Il white cloth held the old
fas hiOned chinaware which my wife
had priced. At first looked around,
almost expecting to see her. But no,
there stood Allie, as she called herself,
smiling and blushing, yet half afraid
at my hasty exclamation.
"You won't be angry with me, will
you? But all the things were upstairs,
and they looked so sad and lonesome,
just as | used to feel, that | thought
I'd bring some OF them downstairs.
And, oh! Hound this, but Ididn't dare
to play with it,"
AS she spoke she brought from an;
other part of the room little, brdE.
en-, faded-faced doll
That was too much for me; my lit
! tie child with its brown tresses and
blue eyes came to me in the person of
the waif who had brought order and
symmetry and love into my desoIate
home, and from that moment | said:
"She shall be mine, and | will never
part from her, but will be to her O.
| father indeed"
Then | awoke from the lethargy
that had bound my soul SO long. [
became a new man. Together we
sang and worked and prattled, like
two children. | ceased to think that
she ever had been q stranger, and her
Thoughtful, womanly little ways were-a
constant delight to me. By degrees my
| home frightened more and more. The
cObwebs disappeared from doors and
windows; IN their stead same fresh,
new paint and house plants. .All the
books were brought down from the
garret, with their old racks, and nailed
| to the wall where my wife herself had
planned for them to be placed. Every
night after any work | came home to
a we'll ordered dinner, for the child
seemed to take naturally to all the
mysteries of cooking, and after that
spent two happy, hours in teaching
her with books and slate and pencil.
| was myself again. | had something
to live for, something to look forward
to. The flesh came again upon my
bones; nay old friends recognized me-
and thewOrld took on new beauty,
for saw it out OF fresh young eyes,
and felt it throb in grateful heart.
Now, in place of the rusty lock, the
spent candle, and the greed fer count.
ing money in a den thick with dirt,
through whose windows the glarlng
sun itself looks dim-in place OF the
discomforts Of cold and nig9ard meals,
sit in my pleasant, gaslight room,
filled with the perfume of flowers. Am
weary? My Alice reads to me. Am
I sorrowful? She sit down to the
piano and plays the sweet melodies
love, the songs of long ago.
The gray hairs are shining on my
temples, but, thank God, the rust and
the, ,canker have faded out ofmy heart.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

beaoty even in the other sex. When
the people of Amsterdam gathered
round balcony to look at the Misses
Hornecks he grew Impatient and said
peevishly: There are places where L
also am admired" DR.. Johnson, who,
like n,cst monologists, hated TO hear
other people converse, said of Gold
smith, it will be remembered that he
wrote like an anged and talked Iis,.J
Loor Poll. 1t IS ore Of the odd, ;
among our odd anecdotes Of ogotIsl,s
in high places that a man so uncom-
monty ugly as Goldsmith shsfsd have
piqued himself as dcsrribedt0n his per-
sonal appearance.
William Charles Macready-Actors
are Of course, although no more than
singers, among the valnest OF men,
Macready actually wrote of his own
playing OF Macbeth that it was anoble-
piece OF art.
Edwin Forrest-The American trage~
dian was more wary OF self-praise.-
Here, however, is an anecdote not
given by Hr Morrill,, and which We
have never seen in print. Some syco~
phant said to him, "Why, Forrest, /,
you're not an actor-you're an insti-
tuition" Forrest liked at times to re-
peat the pleasant saying.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05
Church Fashions i'm Washington.


The fashionable church on. Sunday
in Washington affords 60 Cd deal OF
interesting material for reflection. A
correspondent writing from the ma,
tional capital says, somewhat flip.
PANTY:
The congregation of a fashionable
Washington church look as if there
was q sort of-p;ous afternoon tea 60,
ing on and family prayers We're sud
denly in order. 1t is difficult to inn
agine, much less realize, that the peo-
pie one has seen rushing around all
the week to teas, dinners, balls and
receptions can be any more in earnest
in the perfunctory performance of the
services than they are when Worship
ing at the shrine of Mammon and so.
ciety. The church is turned into a
booth for the display of millinery.
To have pew in it is supposed to be
g. guarantee of social eNclusiveness no
less than an evidence of recherche
piety. The church you attend seems
to have as much weight is giving you
tone as your visiting list. The strug.
gle for seats in the height of the sea.
son is quite as great as the scutfle for
cards to very select affairs. An earn
est seeker of salvation of the extreme
ly fashionable type would perish
sooner than he seen coming out of q
church her set did not attend. 1t is a
common thing for the church the
President attends to be crammed, not
with sinners who are writhing under
the intolerable burden of sin, and are
anxious to lead new life, but that
they may stare Mrs. Cleveland out Of
countenance, and thereby gratify
their snobbish curiosity, <tt ( !
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05
Pointing the Finger of ScOrn.

From the Boston Record.
An Episcopal clergyman was taking
his outing on the Maine coast and was
clothed appropriately in a blue fan
nei "Ht-with rough clothing to match.
Burned by the sun and altogether
hardened in his aspect, the clergyman
made his way on Sunday morning to
the only place of worship in the re-
gion, and sat under the ministrations
of good Methodist brother.
The few faithful men and women
who made up the congregation were
all in their places. and their devout,
ness was marked. Imagine, then, the
wonder of the clerical hearer when the
pastor announced his sucject as an
attempt to prove the existence of God.
Arguments OF unbelievers, which these
simple hearted people had never
heard, were stated and answered,
Finally, as the preacher waxed
Warm III his argument, he suddenly
turned and pointed to the blue-shirted
Episcopal minister, and cried OUT
''It there is an atheist present, beg
him to heed this demonstration oi
the existence of God"
The ''awsul example blushed deep
ly, of course, as the congregation
closely eyed him.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

The New York World is taking a
lively interest in tax matters. 1t sent
out a reporter one day, and before he
got back he mad discovered S3O,OOO,,
900 Of untaxed personal property be,
longing to corporations There are
earnest complaints all over the coun-
try, of the difficulty of getting at per,
sonal property for purposes Of taxa
ton. The methods OF concealment
are so varied and ingenious that as
SCISSORS even when we'll disposed, are
often defeated, and millions of prop
erty are allowed to escape taxation.
In some states the laws and machin-
ary are quite stringent, and in Others,
very loose.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05
Congress will probably pass the bill

Congress will probably pass the bill
reducing the charges or passports for
American citizens desiring to visit for
eign countries. The clarge has been
So, but the Secretary q State, in re-
sponse to resolution O oinquiry from
the Senate, said that h. thought 1t
could be reduced to 81. Passports
are now required of Americans travel.
ling in Germany, Russia, Turkey and
Spain, and in the dependencies OF
those countries. 1t is we'll ror any
naturalized American citizens to Sc
cure passports if they intend IA visit
the country of their birth. luring
the year ending March Z. 1886, here
were issued 1900 passports by tie
Secretary OF State,
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

The gray and grief-stricken mother
OF Brooks, under death sentences at St.
Lonis for the Staying OF prelltr. sends
from her far away English home tc
her boy his Old school-books and a
case OF candles by which TO read them
in his cell, Nor crime, nor distance,
nor the worlds condemnation, can
Quench the love OF mother for the
boy that Graded in her arms.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

Two gentlemen at Dunkirk, y. Y,
get s., ,446 year for collecting reve-
nues amounting to S2O3. the dues from
q dozen vessels, and yet there is Wig
orouS kicking against a change. 1t is
an easy thing to establish officers and
fix salaries, but the constitution and
government are terribly wrenched, at
the discontinuance OF either.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

The steady Improvement of busi-
ness is freshly illustrated by the re-
port OF the Massachusetts Savings
Bank Commissioners for the Year end
lnS with October. The amount OF de-
posirs IS SIG, l99,+SS larger than in
1885, which is a gain OF nearly one
third upon the increase in 1885 over
the record in 1884,
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

OF 252 responsible editors who form
the press staff OF the two cities OF Rus.
sla, st. Petersburg and Moscow, no
less than 81 per cent. are military OF
civil officers, 36 OF whom rank very
high in the social world, being Gener-
ais, Privy Councillors and even State
Councillors; 65 are field officers or civ
IL ilservice officers Of the same highrank;
81 are superior officers in the militia
~ or civil service, and % are noble.
men, but not officials.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

At Charlottesville, Va, Miss Sallie
ONerton Rossel, daughter of the Con.
tederate cavalryman, Gen. Thomas l..
kosser was married to Mr., Campbell
Darlington Cochran, young lawyer
OF Paiatka, Fla. The groom is a
nephew OF Judge John L. Cochran, OF
Charlottesville.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

Great Britain is now about to have
another vexation added to her mani
fold troubles. The owners OF fishing
vessels, who have suffered losses on
account OF the action OF the Canadian
government during the past season,
have been requested by the senate
committee on foreign affairs to trans
nit to Washington itemized state
ments OF their losses. These state
ments will be used as the basis OF a
claim upon Great Britain for indem-
nity.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05
A Birds-Eye View of the Earth.

Popular Science Monthly.-If we
imagine an observer contemplating
the earth from convenient distance in
space, and scrutinizing its features as
it rolls before him, we may suppose
him to be struck with the fact that
eleven-sixteenths ofits surfaceis cover
ed with water, and the land is so un--
equally distributed that from one
point OF view he would see a hemis-
phere almost exclusively oceanic, while
nearly the whole of the dry land is
gathered in the opposite hemisphere.
He might observe that the sreat
oceanic area of the Pacific and Ant
arctic Oceans is dotted with islands
like shallow pool with stones rising
above its surface-as if its general
depth were small in comparison with
its area. He might also notice that a
mass or belt OF land surrounds each
pole, and that the northern ring sends
offto the southwark three vast tongue
of land and of mountain chair.
terminating respectively in South
America, South Africa, and Austria
lia, toward which feebler and insular
processes are given of by the Antarc-
tic continental mass. This, as some
geographers have observed, gives
rudely three-ribbed aspect to theearth.
though two CIR three ribs are crowded
together and form the Europe Asian
mass, or double continent, while the
third is isolated in the single continent
of America. He might also observe
that the northern girdle is cut across,
so that the Atlantic opens by wide
space into the Arctic sea, while the
Pacific is scontracted toward the north,
but confuentwith the Antarctic ocean.
The Atlantic is also relatively deeper
and less numbered with islands than
the Pacific, which has the higher ridge
near its shores, constituting what
some visitors to the Pacific coast OF
America have not inaptly called the
back of the world" while the wider
slopes tace the narrower ocean, into
which, for this reason, the greater part
of the drainage of the land is poured.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

1t is authorita5iveIy announced
from the Executive Mansion that the
idea OF conveninJ an extra session OF
Congress has never occurred - the
President nor to any Of his conhden-
tiaIadviSers, and he has never thought
OF discussing the subject with any one,
notwithstanding the positive assert
tions Of the newspapers which assume
10 know the thoughts Of the executive
head OF the nation.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

There is no little alarm in Pennsyl-
vania over the decreased flow OF the
National gas wells. At Tarrentum
nnd Freeport the we'll have tailed, and
they have to draw their supply from
point twenty-five miles distant The
supply furnished Bellevue has been
cut off. Some OF the fields are yet
good. The finest gas wells have been
struck on the outskirts fthe ceiebrat-
ed ConneIlsvil!e coal basin or in the
vicinity of the Monongahela coal
veins.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

Francis Murphy obtained in Cincin.
natl four thousand temperance
pledges. A surprising number OF re-
Gently hard-dr'nking men have taken
the pledge at the Murphy meetings,
and are keeping it.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05
4 w0MAN's P0RTRAIE

Blessing she is; God made her so,
And dsetis OF week day holiness
Vail from her noiseless ~ tho snow,
Nor had she ever chaneed to know
That aught wac easier than to bless.
She . RpsufRiS aad tEnreunto
Her lie doth rightly harmouizei
Feeling or thought that wAs not true
Ne'er made less beautiful the blue
unclouded Heaven OF her eyes.
she is a woman; one in whom
The spring-time OF her childish years
Hath never lost it, fresh perfume,
Though k'towing we'll that life hath room
For many blights and many tears.
j. Il. Lowell.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

Judge Daniels OF the New York su.
preme court has just rendered q de-
cision that combinations to keen
articles OF food or other necessities cI
the market with the view OF getting
higher prices are unlawful conspira-
cles, punishable as a crime. When
successfully carried out, the effect
would be to impose al additional
burden On the public 1t is little less
than robbery, understood by law"
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

How rapid has been the change from
pine knots to tallow dips, from tallow
dips to whale oil, from whale oil to
lard oil and camphene, and from gas
to electricity-all within one lifetime
II the light Of the future goes on at
the same rate darkness will be q thing
OF the past,
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05
A Beggar Leaves to a WomaIs
Who Befriended Him $50, 900
in Cash.

Old Matt Bland, BRUSH peddler
and miser, died in squaloT a ie"
weeks ago in the third story back
room OF little house on Stiles street
above Sixteenth in Philadelphia. A
few days ago his will WIS admitted to
probate in the office of the Register
there. It bequeaths his entirefortune
of $4,000 to Mrs. Harriet Walton
the wife of William II. Walton, q we'll
to.do Wholesale chemist, who lives at
1853 Gira1d avenue. Mrs. Walton
says: Il think that it was early In
1884 that Old Matt as we used TO cais
him, first came to the house selllng
brushes He was a miserable-looklng
old fellow, with a racking cough, poorly
clad, but always remarkably neat ana
clean. bought a brush from plm and
he seemed very grateful. About a
week afterwari he came again and I'M
plored me to buy another brush, ne
cause it gave him luck. The brush \
had bought before, he said, was the
first one he had sold for three days,
but it sort of set the ball rolling and
he had sold a dozen day since
made the purchase. Trade had begun
to slack off again, and so he begged me
to give him a start"
Mrs. Walton said she took an inter-
est in him and bought one. What
was more, she gave him his break
fast, and from that time he was reg
ular visitor, eating his breakfast in
her kitchen about three mornings a
week and selling her more brushes
than she could find use for. He came
in the winter only, however, and she
learned from him that in the summer
he tramped around the country ped
ding his wares.
He was a curious old fellow" she
continued; possessed of q fair educa-
tion and a rare fund OF information
on general topics He told me once
that he had married when young, and
had lost his wife three months after
He had never been the sa ne man since
He was native OF the north of Ireland
and was brushmaker by trade. His,
father was a successful mechanic,
and my belief is that most OF the
money which he left was bequeathed-
him by his father. About a month
ago he stopped coming here, and /
supposed he must be i'll. [ had no
idea where he lived, and had no idea
that he was anything but what he rep
resented himself TO be. poor peddler,
until | received notice early IN the
week from lawyer that Matthew
Bland had died, leaving me his sole
legatee. At first | couldn't imagine
who it was, and thought there must
be some mistake, for l didn't even
know his last name"
The legacy is for the most part in
cash on deposit in one of the uptown
banks. though among his treasures
were two shares OF Pennsylvania
Railroad stock and one share of the
Insurance Company OF fNorth America.
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

Another attempt is to be made Is
recover the So. 600, 900 in specie which
went down with the seeamer Brother
Jonathon, wrecked on the coast OF
Oregan twenty-one years ago,
Morris tribune., 1887-01-05

(1SII J, ana, after saying that he did
not think literature his vocation,
added: But you will see that will
do something or other-the times and
fortune permitting-that, like the
cosmogony or creation of the world.
will puzzle the philosophers. of all
ages" 1t is believed that he thought
to achieve military success and to be-
come King OF Greece.
Margaret Fuller-This remarka-
BILE woman is reported to have said
(when quite young. happily: 81 have
now met all the intellects of this coun-
try, and find none comparable to my
own" 1t should be a consolation
that an Englishwoman, Frances Anna
Kemble, has said things almost as
vain.
Nath.sss iel Hawthorne-This eminent
man had his snare of pride, but it
was sometimes the pride that apes
humility, as when he says in the pref
ace to "rwice Told Tales: "The
author has claim to one distinction
which. as none of his literary brethren
will care about disputing it with him,
he must not be afraid to mention. He
""S AoA " EOOu AlictL1y years UIlG OUSCuE-
est man OF letters in America"
DIR. Samuel Johnson-The great
photographer, said innumerable ego
tistical things. One of them was
about 1.-The Rambler" "My other
works" he said, "are wine and water,
but my Rambler is pure wine" The
world, as Mr.. Morrill, observes, has
thought differently.
Once Johnson called out at q club
with lofty exultation: 30, must tell
you, gentlemen, very great thing!
The Empress of Russia has ordered
the Rambler to be translated into
the Russian language, so l ahall be
read on the banks of the Wolga. Hor-
ace boasts that his fame would extend
Us far as the banks of the Rhone; now
the Wolga is further from me than
the Rhone was from Horace" &c.
Oliver Goldsmith-This admirable
wrlter is said TO have been Jealous OF
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-15

CHICAGO, Doc. ia Broken Bow, Neb
special says: James Rankin, young farmer
living near here, started out on the morning
of December 10 for hunt 10 sleigh. Whom
he had reached point in the woods about
halfa mile from his fathers house his double
barreled shot gun slipped of the seat and
In attempting to draw it toward him the
hammer caught and both loads were dis
charged ilto his heart. His clothing caught
fire from the fash and was burned off with
the exception of the ovsrshoss and pair of
felt bocts The remains were discovered
yesterday i Jog in the sleigh abou.aquarter
o! mi g from the main road. His right
band still held The reins firmly aad the
horses were standing ut the edge Of deep
ravine. They lad been without cood since
the accident occurred and had guawed the
sleigh tongue nearly in two.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-15

PATRONS OF HusBANDRY-In the State Grange,
Patrons of HusbsndIy, at Norfolk yesterday, ies-
olutions were adopted inviting immigration and
promising protection to all who come from other
sections of tho United States. resolution was
adopted pledeing the members of the State Grange
TO their efforts to defeat the reelection of the
members of the Legislature who voted to dsplace
Commissioner Of Agriculture Harrison. Resolu-
tons were adopted condemning the present sys.
tenn Of handling tobacco, and asking tho Legisla
ture to take steps to remedy the evil complained
of; requesting the Legislature to take action reg
ulating local freight, and instructing the com
mittec on national legislation to take all proper
steps to have the internal revenue tax removed.
Fredericksburg was fxei upon as the next place
as tie time. K. x Charters, of fredericksburg
YVES re elected worthy master for the ensuing year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. VIM. Hibbs, an old and we'll known
citizen Of Loudoun county, died on Sunday
last at an advanced ago.
The democratic members of The Lsgisla.
ture will meet in caucus in the hall Of The
nominate city judges.
1t is said that a member OF the celebrated
Murrell gang OF highway robbers, who we're
the terror of the West and Southwest fifty
years ago, still survives in Fauquier
George G. Lewis, q keeper on board Win.
ter-quGrter Shoa lighiship No 81, at Chin.
colleague, died in Philadelphia Tuesday
from tho effects of stab wound received
several weeks ago during fight on board
the vessel. Lewis was 2S years of age and
was a native of Virginia.
At the caucus of the republican members
Of the General Assembly, held last night.
General Malone was unanimously nomi-
mated for United States Senator. II is
claimed that all those who nave been here
tofore opposed to his receiving this compIi-
ment in the caucus we're present and gave
him their support.
As milk wagon belonging 10 B. P. Sale,
driven By colored man, was going into
Norfolk yesterday, when crossing the
Norfolk and Terminal Railroad it was run
into by - train CT coal cars. The horse was
killed, the wagon shattered and the driver
terribly Injured, his right hip being crushed
and bis head cut and bruised in shocking
manner.
In the City Circuit Court of Richmond
yesterday charter was granted to the Long
Island Consolidated Gold and Mining Com.
pany of Virginia. The object of the com
pany is to search for, develop and mine ores.
minerals, SC The capital stock is to be net
less than S. 600 nor more than $3.50 900.
The company has all the power and priv.
leges of similar corporations chartered by
authority in the State of Virginia.
During the discussion in the House Of
Delegates yesterday on the resolution in.
sttucting the representatives in Congress
from this State to secure the passage of the
Blair educational bill or some better meas
ure, Mr.. Elan said the people of the State,
of party ties, had indor5ed the
Blair bill, aud knew exactly what it was.
Some one on the democratic side asked the
speaker ifthe record of the United States
Senate did not show that Senator Malone
failed to vote for this bill. Mr.. Fam said
be knew Malone was heartily in sympathy
with the Blair bill. Another democratic
uembar interrupted Mr.. Elan to ask i'll
Senator Rddleberger had not declared in
recent publication that Malone lodged put
ting himself on record in favor of the Blair
bill. To this Mr.. Elan replied in substance
hat it made little difference to the House or !
nybody el5e what Riddleberger said on
his or any other question.